Quotes About Progress

Radicalism usually prospers in the gap between rising expectations and declining opportunities.

THE BRIDGE TO TOTAL FREEDOM is a journey that goes on and on (although confoundingly, in the Scientology metaphor, one moves "higher and higher"—up the Bridge rather than across it).

I reflected that, when dynamic, positive change happens, it is usually because of generational commitment to social transformation.

And yet rapid change brings chaos as well as progress.

Perhaps the generation that will genuinely transform the Arab world has not yet arrived.

THIS MEANS THE LAST REASON TO HAVE PSYCHIATRY AROUND IS GONE

A happy ending isn't really the end. It's just the place where you choose to stop telling the story.

Stanislavsky wrote that the difficult will become easy and the easy habitual, so that the habitual my become beautiful. (P224)

Revising objectives is smart because it stops you throwing good money after bad.

At one point they said they were heading to

Reacher hated turning back. He liked to press on, dead ahead, whatever.

We can't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

Easy. Just start counting. One, two, three, four, five, six. And so on. You don't hit a letter A until you get to a hundred and one. You can even do it real fast and still get nowhere near ninety-nine inside a minute.

key. I need to move up into Duke's job. Then I'll be top boy on Beck's side. Then I'll

This isn't the Wild West." "You got that right. This is the timid West. We need to roll the clock back.

Further On Up the Road." Bobby Bland

La presión transforma el carbón en diamante.

Text messaging," Pauling said. "What's that?" "You can send written words by cell phone." "When did that start?" "Years ago." "OK," Reacher said. "Live and learn.

I'd expected four. Five was going to be harder. But more productive.

The car kept on coming. The train kept on coming. Vectoring in. Collision course.

Which is what the phrase means these days, I suppose, now that the whole parturition business has been institutionalized.

Westwood had quoted from his recent research and said old-style wheat grew about four feet tall, but it was being bred down to a brawnier plant with more seeds, just two feet high. In which case the local farmers were still old-style. The wheat was easily four feet tall.

get. I was heading straight for

The Army changes the rules all the time. Go back fifty years, it's OK to harass blacks, then it's not. It's OK to shoot gook babies, then it's not. A million things like that. Hundreds of men were canned one after the other, for some new invented offense. Truman integrated the Army, nobody started killing the blacks who filed complaints. This